Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Greg Abbotthttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/greg-abbott/Stories or blog posts about Greg Abbott from Politifact.comen-usWed, 14 Jun 2017 12:20:15 -0400Breaking down Greg Abbott&#39;s &#39;common&#39; pecan tree talehttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/jun/14/breaking-down-greg-abbotts-common-pecan-tree-tale/Above this story, we&#39;ve shared a fresh photo of the Central Austin house Greg Abbott had built for his family before he won election as governor in 2014 and moved south to the Governor&rsquo;s Mansion. Any trees stand out on that wide pretty lawn? The question intrigues because Abbott recently insisted the City of Austin kept him from removing a common pecan tree from the property--yet the tree was indeed removed in 2012, news organizations have confirmed. Abbott,&nbsp;announcing his plans to call legislators into a special session starting July 18, said last week that once members vote to keep several ... <a href="/texas/article/2017/jun/14/breaking-down-greg-abbotts-common-pecan-tree-tale/">>>More</a>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:20:15 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/jun/14/breaking-down-greg-abbotts-common-pecan-tree-tale/Texas economy falls from No. 3 to 21 in rankings, probably due to oil slumphttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/mar/28/texas-economy-falls-3-21-probably-oil-slump-democr/It&rsquo;s commonplace for Texas leaders to crow about the state&rsquo;s swaggering economy. In August, Gov. Greg Abbott declared the state had the world&rsquo;s 10th-largest economy. Mostly True, we found. Abbott didn&rsquo;t take into account far more populous California. More recently, Abbott in March accepted Site Selection magazine&rsquo;s designation of Texas, for the fifth straight year, as the nation&rsquo;s top-performing state for capital investment and job creation. Separately, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas announced March 20: &quot;Economic growth continues to accelerate in Texas across sectors and metropolitan areas.&quot; So we paid mind in December when the Texas Democratic Party said ... <a href="/texas/article/2017/mar/28/texas-economy-falls-3-21-probably-oil-slump-democr/">>>More</a>Tue, 28 Mar 2017 02:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/mar/28/texas-economy-falls-3-21-probably-oil-slump-democr/Greg Abbott fulfills nine campaign promises, but 13 vows broken, per PolitiFact Texas Abbott-O-Meterhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/feb/01/greg-abbott-fulfills-nine-campaign-promises-13-vow/Want our fact checks first? Follow us on Twitter. At the midpoint of his four-year term, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has fulfilled nine campaign promises and signed off on three compromises, according to the PolitiFact Texas Abbott-O-Meter, which tracks progress on his campaign promises. Give credit to a loosening of&nbsp;handgun limits and legislative approval in 2015 of&nbsp;millions of dollars in targeted education aid. But the meter, which we debuted after Abbott won his post in 2014, also shows 13 Abbott promises Broken -- and that&rsquo;s before we rate progress on 20 promises. Then again, all of this is ... <a href="/texas/article/2017/feb/01/greg-abbott-fulfills-nine-campaign-promises-13-vow/">>>More</a>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 04:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/feb/01/greg-abbott-fulfills-nine-campaign-promises-13-vow/Ted Cruz&#39;s dual citizenship and other factual finds of 2016http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/jan/24/ted-cruzs-dual-citizenship-and-other-factual-finds/PolitiFact Texas reporters came across plenty of curious facts through 2016--all&nbsp;announced first on our Twitter feed (please follow us here). We&rsquo;re not dwelling here on how we rated claims on our Truth-O-Meter, which is overseen by editors at the partnering Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. You can click to all our fact checks at www.politifacttexas.com . In this story, we&rsquo;re sharing various facts that struck us as interesting on our way to determining accuracy. Canadian and American? For instance, while finding no validity to a claim that Canada-born Ted Cruz had a &quot;double passport,&quot; we learned there&rsquo;s ... <a href="/texas/article/2017/jan/24/ted-cruzs-dual-citizenship-and-other-factual-finds/">>>More</a>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:57:53 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2017/jan/24/ted-cruzs-dual-citizenship-and-other-factual-finds/Greg Abbott&#39;s Pants on Fire voter fraud claim sparked our No. 8 fact checkhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2016/dec/27/greg-abbotts-voter-fraud-rampant-pants-fire-politi/In his second year as governor, Greg Abbott landed at No. 8 among the year&rsquo;s most-clicked Texas Truth-O-Meter fact checks when he said voter fraud was rampant. Really? Abbott, reacting to a poke by President Barack Obama at mandates to present photo IDs at the polls, told reporters in March: &quot;The fact is voter fraud is rampant--and in Texas, unlike some other states and unlike some other leaders, we are committed to cracking down on voter fraud.&quot; If the state&rsquo;s former attorney general had the goods on such rampant fraud, he kept &lsquo;em secret. Best we could tell, in-person voter ... <a href="/texas/article/2016/dec/27/greg-abbotts-voter-fraud-rampant-pants-fire-politi/">>>More</a>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 10:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2016/dec/27/greg-abbotts-voter-fraud-rampant-pants-fire-politi/Factually flawed Christmas claimshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/dec/24/factually-flawed-christmas-claims/Did President Obama rename Christmas trees &quot;holiday trees?&quot; Did Starbucks peel Christmas off its cups? Closer to Texas, did the State Board of Education consider eliminating references to Christmas in textbooks? Here&rsquo;s the not-so-fast skinny on these flawed claims, thanks to Amy Sherman of the Miami Herald and PolitiFact Florida. Merry Christmas! (And what do you hear that we should fact-check out there? We&rsquo;d also love to have you LIKE our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.) <a href="/texas/article/2015/dec/24/factually-flawed-christmas-claims/">>>More</a>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:54:17 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/dec/24/factually-flawed-christmas-claims/MOSTLY FALSE: Saudis &quot;caught&quot; by agents at border in Laredohttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/nov/23/were-saudis-caught-border-laredo/Gov. Greg Abbott, at the forefront of a push-back by more than half the nation&#39;s governors against the U.S. admitting Syrian refugees, declared that fresh apprehensions at the Texas-Mexico border illuminate his concerns. In a Nov. 18, 2015, Twitter post, the Texas Republican said: &quot;THIS is why Texas is vigilant about Syrian refugees.&quot; His tweet pointed to a headline on a story posted that night by the conservative Breitbart.com: &quot;8 Syrians caught at Texas border in Laredo.&quot; Refugees from Syria -- where four years of civil war has displaced millions of people, according to the United Nations -- have been ... <a href="/texas/article/2015/nov/23/were-saudis-caught-border-laredo/">>>More</a>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:16:30 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/nov/23/were-saudis-caught-border-laredo/Ted Cruz fact checks dominated Texas Truth-O-Meter in Septemberhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/oct/01/ted-cruz-fact-checks-dominated-texas-truth-o-meter/Whether Texan Ted Cruz got it right or wrong, our fact checks of him or stories about him drew the most reader attention in September. Based on online clicks, five of the Texas Top 10 articles for the month had Cruz connections: --Our most-clicked fact check of September culminated in a Mostly True rating of a claim by the Republican senator and presidential candidate that it&#39;s always been that babies born to U.S. citizens abroad are citizens from birth. From 1790 on, federal law has held that children born abroad to American citizens become citizens, provided other conditions are met. ... <a href="/texas/article/2015/oct/01/ted-cruz-fact-checks-dominated-texas-truth-o-meter/">>>More</a>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:47:49 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/oct/01/ted-cruz-fact-checks-dominated-texas-truth-o-meter/Greg Abbott lacks data tying Texas actions to drops in abortions, unintended pregnancieshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/sep/15/greg-abbott-lacks-data-tying-texas-actions-drops-a/A message posted on Twitter by Gov. Greg Abbott got us checking on the measurable impact of legislative actions targeting Planned Parenthood. On Aug. 25, Abbott tweeted: &quot;After Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, both the unintended pregnancy and abortion rates dropped.&quot; Abbott&rsquo;s tweet included a web link to a LifeNews.com post headlined: &quot;When Planned Parenthood is De-Funded, Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy Rates Drop.&quot; The linked article, by Michael New, a visiting associate professor of economics at Ave Maria University in Florida, mentioned unintended pregnancies but it hinted at other indicators, stating that &quot;in Texas, both the birth rate and the abortion ... <a href="/texas/article/2015/sep/15/greg-abbott-lacks-data-tying-texas-actions-drops-a/">>>More</a>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:01:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/sep/15/greg-abbott-lacks-data-tying-texas-actions-drops-a/Greg Abbott keeps five early childhood education campaign promiseshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/jul/27/abbott-keeps-five-early-childhood-education-promis/Greg Abbott offered a few early education ideas while running for governor. Now he&#39;s signed related proposals into law, each one funded by the 2016-17 state budget. We&#39;re marking five Abbott promises about early education as promises KEPT: CLICK TO ALL OF ABBOTT&#39;S KEPT PROMISES HERE. SEE THE FULL ABBOTT-O-METER HERE. Thumbnails: Abbott said it made sense to bring back academies to help teachers in the earliest grades school kids in reading. A predecessor, George W. Bush, had a similar initiative, which later went unfunded. The 2015 Legislature advanced Senate Bill 925, by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, requiring the state ... <a href="/texas/article/2015/jul/27/abbott-keeps-five-early-childhood-education-promis/">>>More</a>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/jul/27/abbott-keeps-five-early-childhood-education-promis/